Deep within the Cabal's vault, the Mirari pulsed like a dead sun—and its darkness radiated across Otaria.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

"Yawgmoth's corpse is a wound in the universe. His foul blood seeps out, infecting the land with his final curse."
—Lord Windgrace

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Temple of Silence

Temple of Silence enters tapped.
When Temple of Silence enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Marsh Flats: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Concealed Courtyard

Concealed Courtyard enters tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Shambling Vent

Shambling Vent enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{1}{W}{B}: Shambling Vent becomes a 2/3 white and black Elemental creature with lifelink until end of turn. It's still a land.

Plains

Swamp

"I would see the White Tree in flower again in the courts of the kings, and Minas Tirith in peace."
—Faramir

Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {W}.
{1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Restless Fortress

Restless Fortress enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
{2}{W}{B}: Restless Fortress becomes a 1/4 white and black Nightmare creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever Restless Fortress attacks, defending player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"All peoples treasure a place where the weary traveler may drink in peace."
—Ajani Goldmane

Radiant Fountain

When Radiant Fountain enters, you gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {C}.

Centuries ago, Shizo was a verdant field of wildflowers. After 891 samurai died in a single battle on its grasses, it became a haunted moor.

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}.
{B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

"It's me and Gribble's special fort. None of the bad things can get us in there."
—Toby

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

After years of silence, the caves once again echo with the grisly sounds of Phyrexians preparing for war.

Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Where victors are commemorated and moments of glory immortalized.

Vault of Champions

Vault of Champions enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Tainted Field

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Scoured Barrens

Scoured Barrens enters tapped.
When Scoured Barrens enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Orzhov Basilica

Orzhov Basilica enters tapped.
When Orzhov Basilica enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {W}{B}.

"Do not linger in such places, child. There the gwyllions dance. If they find you, you will join in their revels for eternity."
—Talara, elvish safewright

Fetid Heath

{T}: Add {C}.
{W/B}, {T}: Add {W}{W}, {W}{B}, or {B}{B}.

A flickering beacon of righteous corruption.

Shineshadow Snarl

As Shineshadow Snarl enters, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Shineshadow Snarl enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Vampire

Elenda, the Dusk Rose

Lifelink
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda, the Dusk Rose.
When Elenda dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is Elenda's power.

A-Blood Artist

Blood Artist

"Vanya Falkenrath's paintings are astonishing. How does she manage to achieve such rich crimson hues?"
—Stefan, art critic

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"I often think on how excited they must feel to be chosen as my prey."

Falkenrath Noble

Flying
Whenever Falkenrath Noble or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"The gods here may walk among the people, but they are not with them."
—Gideon Jura

Anointed Procession

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

"One does not question the size or shape of the grains of sand in an hourglass. Nor do I question the temperament of the souls under my guidance."

Soul Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

In truth, her own faith was gone, trodden in Ulamog's wake. She pantomimed the blessing in the hope that it would inspire others to continue to struggle.

Soul's Attendant

Whenever another creature enters, you may gain 1 life.

Citizens are free to do as they wish, within the confines of the Consulate's laws.

Authority of the Consuls

Creatures your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you gain 1 life.

The mind is a beautiful bounty encased in an annoying bone container.

Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1.
Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards.
Equip {1}

"In these halls there is no pass or fail. Your true test comes with the first full moon."

Mentor of the Meek

Whenever another creature you control with power 2 or less enters, you may pay {1}. If you do, draw a card.

Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Spirit

Sacrifice three white creatures: Exile target creature.
Whenever another black creature you control dies, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.

Elspeth, Sun's Champion

Elspeth, Sun's Champion Emblem

Soldier

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater.
−7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad

Sorin, Lord of Innistrad Emblem

+1: Create a 1/1 black Vampire creature token with lifelink.
−2: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +1/+0."
−6: Destroy up to three target creatures and/or other planeswalkers. Return each card put into a graveyard this way to the battlefield under your control.

Sorin, Solemn Visitor

Sorin, Solemn Visitor Emblem

+1: Until your next turn, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink.
−2: Create a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying.
−6: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice."

In theory, the Guildpact keeps guild feuds from spiraling out of control. Personal feuds, however, are not covered.

Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, Vindictive Vampire deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

"Whichever side wins, I'm sure the banquet will be superb."

Cruel Celebrant

Whenever Cruel Celebrant or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"Eldrazi? Ha! Try walking through Zulaport at night with your pockets full. Now *that's* dangerous."

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legend speaks of the lost coastal polis of Olantin, whose inhabitants' hubris enraged the sun god Heliod.

Wrath of God

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Damnation

Austere Command

Choose two —
• Destroy all artifacts.
• Destroy all enchantments.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 3 or less.
• Destroy all creatures with mana value 4 or greater.

Elspeth Tirel

+2: You gain 1 life for each creature you control.
−2: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens.
−5: Destroy all other permanents except for lands and tokens.

One moment, conscious only of a sense of repose. The next moment, hearing the trudge of his own footsteps. He sighed and squinted into the glare ahead.

Debtors' Knell

({W/B} can be paid with either {W} or {B}.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

A spark of resistance against a tide of corruption.

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

What is a sliver of one's soul compared to unimaginable wealth?

Greed

Dawn of Hope

"To wage war, secure peace within yourself."
—Emmara

Whenever you gain life, you may pay {2}. If you do, draw a card.
{3}{W}: Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token with lifelink.

The sigil holds different meanings depending on its form and presentation. While some wear it as a sign of status, others wear it as a sign of debt.

Orzhov Signet

"Unskin these impure bodies, Great Yawgmoth, that the flesh may welcome your blessings."
—*Phyrexian Scriptures*

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

"If you work at sawing up carcasses, you notice how the joints fit, how the nerves are arrayed, and how the skin peels back."
—Ashnod, to Tawnos

Ashnod's Altar

The ritual successfully rebound her soul to her body, but not quite in the way she'd planned.

Soul-Shackled Zombie

When this creature enters, exile up to two target cards from a single graveyard. If at least one creature card was exiled this way, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

"The vampires never had gods. We followed our bloodchiefs. Now they are gone. What is left? Destruction and death, my friends. That is enough."

Marauding Blight-Priest

Whenever you gain life, each opponent loses 1 life.

Elenda's Hierophant

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on Elenda's Hierophant.
When Elenda's Hierophant dies, create X 1/1 white Vampire creature tokens with lifelink, where X is its power.

"Through the blood of the wicked, we shall be redeemed. Let us pray."

Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
{3}{B}{B}: Creatures you control gain lifelink until end of turn.

Her wings ripple with impossible colors—a sign that a miracle is on the way.

Dazzling Angel

Flying
Whenever another creature you control enters, you gain 1 life.

The monstrous bird swooped in for the kill, only to be met by a concentrated blast of pure, searing moonlight.

Luminous Rebuke

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a tapped creature.
Destroy target creature.

Fiendish Panda

Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
When this creature dies, return another target non-Bear creature card with mana value less than or equal to this creature's power from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Exemplar of Light

Flying
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Whenever you put one or more +1/+1 counters on this creature, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Equip {1}

"The arc of my blade has carved a path of light for the peace that will follow."

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Elgin's final mistake was assuming an intruder would come through the door, and not up the sheer, smooth, six-story wall.

Stab

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

As life returned to the bogs of Bala Ged, the vampires returned to feed upon it.

Sanguine Syphoner

Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

"This town swims with such exquisite blood. I will take every drop for my own."

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Flying, deathtouch
Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life. (Damage causes loss of life.)

He has "friends" in places both high and low, and all seem to owe him favors.

Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

"I didn't say I would help you find your way home. I said I would help you finish your adventure."

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Enduring Tenacity

Whenever you gain life, target opponent loses that much life.
When Enduring Tenacity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

"Draw swiftly, strike cleanly, and sheathe before the ground tastes blood."
—Munetsugu Takeno, *Way of the Samurai*

Quick-Draw Katana

During your turn, equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Steelshaper's Gift

Search your library for an Equipment card, reveal that card, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Rodolf Duskbringer

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever you gain life, Rodolf Duskbringer gains indestructible until end of turn.
At the beginning of your end step, you may pay {1}{W/B}. When you do, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Angel

Resplendent Angel

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained 5 or more life this turn, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying and vigilance.
{3}{W}{W}{W}: Until end of turn, Resplendent Angel gets +2/+2 and gains lifelink.

She guides expedition parties through the perilous floating ruins of Zendikar's ancient empires.

Vanguard Seraph

Flying
Whenever you gain life for the first time each turn, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

The Sanctum Seekers were the first of the knightly orders to cross the sea and are still the most zealous.

Sanctum Seeker

Whenever a Vampire you control attacks, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Its very presence rips old wounds open to bleed anew.

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)

It can be a key, a weapon, and a way to attain great power.

Caduceus, Staff of Hermes

Equipped creature has lifelink.
As long as you have 30 or more life, equipped creature gets +5/+5 and has indestructible and "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature."
Equip {W}{W}

"Every choice alters the path of fate."
—Sarkhan Vol

Valorous Stance

Choose one —
• Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
• Destroy target creature with toughness 4 or greater.

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